Ageing Quotes - Page 3

• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  Jack Benny

  Funny, Happy Birthday, Elderly

  New York Times, 1974.

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• I've become totally hooked on Cellex-C. It's an anti-ageing serum and is fantastic. I use it morning and evening and even on my hands, where it has faded those dark spots.

  Joan Collins

  Morning, Dark, Hands

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• The trick is to age honestly and gracefully and make it look great, so that everyone looks forward to it.

  Emma Thompson

  Age, Looks, Aging

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• For healthy adult people, the really big thing we can foresee are ways of intervening in the ageing process, either by slowing or reversing it.

  Nick Bostrom

  People, Healthy, Adults

  "The ideas interview: Nick Bostrom" by John Sutherland, www.theguardian.com. May 09, 2006.

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• Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight

  Sheridan Hay

  Process, Insight, Exchanging

  Sheridan Hay (2008). “The Secret of Lost Things”, p.232, Anchor

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• I admire artists who are ageing and still retaining their edge.

  Paul McGann

  Artist, Admire, Stills

  "Portrait of the artist: Paul McGann, actor". Interview with Laura Barnett, www.theguardian.com. August 03, 2009.

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• French culture takes ageing very seriously. There's much less ageism than in Anglo-Saxon countries.

  Kristin Scott Thomas

  Country, French Culture, Anglo Saxon

  "Food mixers are not on the menu, thanks". Interview with Elizabeth Day, www.theguardian.com. July 03, 2010.

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• Probably the most important reason we are seeing more cancers than before is because the population is ageing overall. And cancer is an age-related disease.

  Siddhartha Mukherjee

  Cancer, Important, Age

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• Why since I am myself subject to birth, ageing, disease, death, sorrows and defilement, do I seek after what is also subject to these things? Suppose, being myself subject these things, seeking danger in them, I were to seek the unborn, unageing, und.

  Gautama Buddha

  Sorrow, Age, Disease

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• For all mortals, birth is suffering, ageing is suffering, sickness is suffering.

  Gautama Buddha

  Suffering, Age, Birth

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• Of course, the young male demographic has always been the target demographic for 'Star Trek,' the men ageing fifteen to about twenty-five or thirty, a very tough market to appeal to.

  Kate Mulgrew

  Stars, Men, Twenties

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• After all the many changes in my life, Olay Total Effects has helped me fight not just 1 but 7 signs of skin ageing.

  Kris Aquino

  Fighting, Skins, Changing My Life

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• As our economy faces up to potential labour shortages due to our ageing population and as it moves to a new level of sophistication to compete with the rest of the world, we're going to need every Australian on board pulling their weight, rejoining the workforce, gaining new skills. Writing off individuals and communities suffering from poverty just creates a dead weight for our economy to drag along.

  Julia Gillard

  Jobs, Moving, Writing

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• I can't get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

  Vera Farmiga

  Years, Age, Twists

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• Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

  Julie Burchill

  Insecure, Careers, Doomed

  Why Photoshop is a feminist's best friend, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2008.

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• Do not worry about avoiding temptation. As you grow older it will avoid you.

  Joey Adams

  Funny, Life, Birthday

  Joey Adams (1981). “Strictly for laughs”, A & W Publishers, Inc.

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• You are as young as your faith, as old as your doubt; as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fear, as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

  Samuel Ullman

  Birthday, Confidence, Self

  "The Silver Treasury, Prose and Verse for Every Mood" by Jane Manner, (p. 323-24), 1934.

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• As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I've got left?

  David Bowie

  Two, Long, Music And Life

  "David Bowie, 21st-Century Entrepreneur". Interview with Jon Pareles, www.nytimes.com. June 9, 2002.

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• Science is, rightly, searching for drugs to arrest ageing or to slow the advance of dementia. But the evidence suggests that many of the most powerful factors determining how you age come from what you do, and what you do with others: whether you work, whether you play music, whether you have regular visitors.

  Geoff Mulgan

  Powerful, Play, Drug

  "Happiness - and how to find it" by Geoff Mulgan, www.theguardian.com. April 2, 2011.

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• Ageing is very exciting. But if I didn't work on ageing, I'd want to work on the brain. There are really cool techniques you can use now. And bioinformatics. The methods you can use for comparing large data sets - that's so powerful.

  Cynthia Kenyon

  Powerful, Data, Brain

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• Ageing doesn't mean giving up on style and individuality; it doesn't mean abandoning fashion and living in comfy slippers and flannel knickers.

  Twiggy

  Fashion, Giving Up, Mean

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• I'm really a strong advocate of ageing because the messages that the media and advertising give to women infuriate me: ie that it's a bad thing to get old.

  Sophia Myles

  Strong, Media, Giving

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• As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can project an unobtainable image that's dangerously unhealthy. I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling.

  Emma Watson

  Inspiring, Fashion, Journey

  "Emma Watson criticises 'dangerously unhealthy' pressure on young women" by Maev Kennedy, www.theguardian.com. March 30, 2014.

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• The strongest initiative that government can take to ensure Australia is prepared for population ageing, is to maintain a strong economy, and a secure nation.

  Julie Bishop

  Strong, Australia, Government

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm actually happier with my body now . . . because the body I have now is the body I've worked for. I have a better relationship with it. From a purely aesthetic point of view, my body was better when I was 22, 23. But I didn't enjoy it. I was too busy comparing it to everyone else's.

  Cindy Crawford

  Views, Age, Body

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